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Evett’s Model Shop

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Evett’s Model Shop

Evett’s Model Shop

Evett’s Model Shop

Evett’s Model Shop

Evett’s Model Shop

hobby model shop

hobby model shop

hobby model shop

hobby model shop

Brandon Johnson
Brandon Johnson
Brandon Johnson
Brandon Johnson
1 Campaign |
VAN NUYS, United States
$0 USD 0 backers
0% of $75,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
Evett's Model Shop Needs Your Help To Keep a 72 Year Old Legacy Going. Hobbies create incredible bonding moments between parents and kids that last a lifetime. Hobbies help establish lifelong career paths. Hobbies also get kids outside and off the screens! The landlord is trying to close the shop - we need help to find a new home and save it. The perks are awesome! Please help us so we can continue to make memories for another generation of customers. Thanks!

Questionnaire:

Do you love Mom & Pop Businesses? 

Do you love R/C cars, model planes, trains and automobiles?
Do you love the John Hughes movie with nearly the same name?

Do you want to help save a shop that creates lifelong bonding moments with grandparents, parents and their kids?

Do you want to help save a shop that can transform lives by taking a hobby and turning it into incredible careers? (No kidding from filmmakers to rocket scientists, Evett's has had multi-generational customers coming in who tell the staff the shop and the hobbies inspired their life long careers.)

Do you want to help save a shop that gets kids off of the screens/video games/phones/devices and the streets and teaches them valuable life lessons? (Again, no kidding, lots of kids hang out at the shop and spend more time outdoors when they are interested in a hobby like the ones you can explore at Evett's). 

Do you long for a local hobby shop that can actually help you fix your stuff when it’s broken, unlike those giant online retailers that can’t do anything for you?

If you answered yes to just one of those questions, then Evett’s Model Shop is the place for you. 

What We Need & What You Get:

Evett’s model shop has been around for 72 years.  That's SEVENTY TWO with a capital 7! 
It was originally run by Colby Evett who was in the shop almost every single day for 65 years until his passing. That's 23,725 days for anyone who's counting. And before that, he was serving our country and engineering real planes.


He built that plane by hand. By himself. It's in the shop now if you want to see it. 

 

Today, his wife Yvonne keeps the shop going with the help of two guys who love this stuff as much as Colby did. Their names are Luke and Gene - come on in and meet them! 

Luke’s an ex-Marine who served his country and now wants to serve you. He knows more about R/C cars than just about anybody, or anything, including the model robot behind the counter.

Gene’s a retired rock musician, who builds award winning models because the fame from being a rock star is fleeting. And he's willing to prove it by putting his guitar up as one of the perks here.
 

 

The Impact:

But here’s the rub folks. Someone who shall remain nameless, with no soul, conscious or internal moral compass has decided to increase the rent. And not just a normal increase like 3% a year or anything like you see in a standard lease, but like 33%, because, well, we think he’s actually a weasel. A real life weasel who has probably learned how to use a computer and fax machine so he could take advantage of people. And this is already on top of multiple, previous rent increases for, in his words, a “market correction.”
But has he market corrected the shop and fixed the place up?

Nope.
Modernized it?
Nope.
Brought it up to Code?
Nope.
He hasn’t actually done a thing because weasels don't like R/C cars or models.

And this weasel doesn’t care if this local hobby institution stays or goes.

But we care, and so do Yvonne, Luke and Gene. 

 

And We Need You To Care Too:

Why should you care? 

Because if you don’t, shops like this will disappear and Yvonne will have nothing to live for (besides her kids and her family) and she lives for bringing in fresh baked goods every day and taking care of customers. 

Rent is high in LA. 

The current landlord sucks, and we need your help to keep this place going strong.

So, instead of just asking for money to help us find a new location, we’re going to reward any/all that make donations with some of the coolest perks ever offered on Indiegogo, besides dinner with Justin Timberlake and a few thousand other cool things we’ve seen. 

But don’t worry, your money is still better spent here. 

So, checkout the side bar for more detail regarding the awesome stuff you can expect to do or get with your donations.

So, in short, please help us save this store. We don't want to see stores like this go away. They are incredible places for families and kids of all ages to learn about wonderful hobbies. They create true bonding moments between parents and their children that are multi-generational in nature. They build life long skill sets for hobbies that can flourish into careers (the store has so many creative people in so many different industries as regular customers). It would be a real shame to see this place go.

Hope you can help. 

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Choose your Perk

Baked Goods (By Yvonne)

$20 USD
free baked goods from Yvonne when you come in this year!
Included Items
  • Baked Goods (By Yvonne)
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 50 of claimed

Evett’s Model Shop T-Shirt

$40 USD
Get an Evett’s Model Shop T-Shirt – wear it loud and proud.
Included Items
  • Evett’s Model Shop T-Shirt
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 claimed
Ships worldwide.

R/C Car (Intro course)

$100 USD
Intro course to electric R/C Cars with Luke.
Included Items
  • Evett’s Model Shop T-Shirt
  • Perks / R/C Car (Intro course)
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 claimed
Nitro Engine Break-in

Nitro Engine Break-in

$200 USD
Nitro engine break-in/ tuning class with Luke: (cars only)
Included Items
  • Nitro Engine Break-in
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 claimed
RC Body Painting

RC Body Painting

$300 USD
RC body painting class with Luke: $300 (includes 3 colors and a body, 1/8th or 1/10th scale)
Included Items
  • RC Body Painting
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 claimed

Custom painted R/C

$400 USD
Custom painted R/C car body of choice by Luke.
Included Items
  • Custom painted R/C
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 5 of claimed
Model Building Class

Model Building Class

$500 USD
Model Building class with Gene: (Includes 5 - 1 hour sessions)
Included Items
  • Model Building Class
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 10 of claimed
Guillow's Plane Build w/Luke.

Guillow's Plane Build w/Luke.

$900 USD
Guillow's stick-and-tissue display model plane build with Luke: $900 (These things take forever to build, and the bigger, the more time consuming they are)
Included Items
  • Guillow's Plane Build w/Luke
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 5 of claimed
Guitar Lessons

Guitar Lessons

$1,000 USD
Guitar lessons with master model builder and rock legend Gene, four one on one guitar lessons, one hour per session, learn what you want, scales, songs etc.
Included Items
  • Guitar Lessons
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 10 of claimed
RC Kit Build w/ Luke

RC Kit Build w/ Luke

$1,000 USD
RC kit build with Luke Tamiya Holiday Buggy, TT-02 or Hornet, RJ Speed Sportsman Racer, Includes DX2 or comparable radio system, electronics set up, cut and mounted body w single color paint job and decals applied.
Included Items
  • RC Kit Build w/ Luke
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 5 of claimed
Box Stock Scale Model Build

Box Stock Scale Model Build

$1,000 USD
Box stock 1/25 scale car or 1/48 scale Tank or Plane or ship 1/700 scale or 1/144 scale Gundam Robot/Sci-fi model build of your choice by Gene, pro level build on any subject, your choice color(s) for exterior & interior : = $1000 (5 builds slots avail per year). The Batmobile pictured is a sample of the quality of our builds
Included Items
  • Box Stock 1/25 Scale Car
Estimated Shipping
Original: June 2019
Current: December 2019
0 out of 5 of claimed
Pro Level 1/25 Scale Car

Pro Level 1/25 Scale Car

$4,000 USD
1 contest level pro level 1/25 scale car build with photo-etch aftermarket parts & wired engine, custom paint of your choice, interior color or your choice with flocking, opening hood & trunk w/hinge, build on this level takes about 1 year to complete: = $4000 (Car pictured is a sample of the contest level builds)
Included Items
  • Pro Level 1/25 Scale Car
Estimated Shipping
Original: June 2019
Current: April 2020
0 out of 2 of claimed
HPI Savage Mod Monster Truck

HPI Savage Mod Monster Truck

$4,000 USD
HPI Savage ultra-modified monster truck: $5,000 (K 5.9 engine, 3 speed transmission, Savage Flux diffs installed, CVEC pipe, piggyback shocks, custom airbrushed 10+ color paint job) One-of-a-kind custom nitro build, never started or run.
Included Items
  • HPI Savage Mod Monster Truck
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 1 of claimed
Custom Jackson Dino Guitar

Custom Jackson Dino Guitar

$75,000 USD
One of a kind Jackson Dino guitar - Soloist neck-through body Arch-Top 6 string Guitar, serial #0077 made in Ontario CA Jackson Guitar plant, hand painted dino scene, Mahogany body & neck, Ebony Fretboard, Cloth Wire, Jackson J50 humbucker PU in bridge position, Jackson Single Coil PU in neck position w/kill switches, w/Jackson hardshell case.
Included Items
  • Evett’s Model Shop T-Shirt
  • Jackson Dino Guitar
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 1 of claimed

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